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Month: July 2020

Month: July 2020

From a quote by Oscar Wilde

admin July 15, 2020 0 Comments
Fashion is UGLY in many other ways. Environmentally unsustainable, creates waste, obsolescence, climate crisis, microplastics pollution, slave labour and more. Do you want to be part of it? Go instead for sustainability, simplicity, elegance, contentment and long lasting values.
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CAP: Recall winter melon strips from the market

admin July 15, 2020 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang calls upon the Ministry of Health to immediately recall winter melon strips from the market. The call is made in response to the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) recall of winter melon strips from Malaysia which was found to contain sulphur dioxide that exceeded the maximum limit stated in the Singapore Food Regulations. Winter melon strips are used in the making...
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Enough Sleep

admin July 15, 2020 0 Comments
Lack of sleep weakens your immune system, leading to colds, flu or other infection. Studies have shown that even moderate amounts of sleep deprivation reduce the levels of white blood cells and immune system effectiveness. One study showed that if you deprive rats of sleep for only 8 hours and then challenge the body with a foreign substance, the antibody response is weak. Mice deprived of sleep...
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Ethnicity should not be a criterion for renting a housing unit

admin July 14, 2020 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the government to investigate into the recent case of a Libyan expatriate who was not allowed to rent a condominium unit in the Cyberjaya neighbourhood. The management of property had barred Africans from renting any unit there. Malaysia needs to seriously reflect how it can allow such explicit racism manifest in our multiethnic and multi...
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Padang Terap Paddy Farmers Face Irrigation Problem

Admin July 13, 2020 0 Comments
More than 100 farmers from six villages near Kuala Nerang in the district of Padang Terap, Kedah are facing problems because the 200 hectares of paddy fields they cultivate do not have adequate water supply and lacking proper irrigation system. The affected villages are Kampung Padang Gelanggang, Kampung Pokka, Kampung Lubuk Keriang, Kampung Lubuk Labi, Kampung Tanjung and Kampung...
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Why We Buy Stuff That We Don’t Use

admin July 13, 2020 0 Comments
Excuses, Excuses All of us have been guilty of making foolish purchases at one time or another. Perhaps yours was the evening dress which you bought at a sale a year ago, but never wore because the colours were a bit too loud. You were never particularly keen on the dress but your friends insisted that it was a good bargain and that the colours were not bright but “fashionable”. Now, every...
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Sunway Group should ‘Walk The Talk” on Prioritising People and the Planet

admin July 10, 2020 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) welcomes recent comments reported by the media by Tan Sri Dr Jeffrey Cheah, the Chairman of the Sunway Group, on the need for a new iteration of economic growth that prioritises people and the planet; (See 2 July, The Star). The media reports referred to the Sunway Group’s commitment to the sustainability agenda in advancing the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals...
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How Food Additives Act Against You

admin July 10, 2020 0 Comments
FOOD ADDITIVES are non-foods added to food. They may cause mutations, genetic damage or birth defects — all very subtle effects. They may also cause cancer, or interfere with the body’s normal processes — long-term effects that are little understood. They may even impair the liver. If toxins are absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract, they are transported to the liver. The liver has...
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